The stats are out now. When Bush took office American education was 1st in the World for high school graduates. In the next survey in 2006 America was 18th.

Thanks again Mr. Bush. Is there anything Bush did right?

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Are you smoking crack? The U.S. was not 1st in high school education when Bush took over. We lead the world in Higher Ed, but our K-12 system has been a mess for some time.

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WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> Are you smoking crack? The U.S. was not 1st in
> high school education when Bush took over. We lead
> the world in Higher Ed, but our K-12 system has
> been a mess for some time.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The United States is no longer the world leader in secondary education, according to the rankings of an international organization.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development places the United States 18th among the 36 nations examined, USA Today reported Wednesday.

Headed to the top of the heap is South Korea where 93 percent of high school students graduate on time compared with the United States where 75 percent receive their diplomas.

The seemingly downward trend of U.S. education worries economists.

"The United States has rested on its laurels way too long," Jacob Funk Kirkegaard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, told USA Today. "Other countries have increasingly caught up and surpassed the United States."

"We've been asleep for a good number of years as a country," says Richard Freeman, an economics professor at Harvard. "It's not that we're doing horrible. But the other guys are moving faster."

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> our K-12 system has been a mess for some time.

Exactly. How do you think Bush got elected in the first place?

Blame it NOT on Bush, but on 30 years of walking kids through school on athletic programs, government grants and vouchers for certain individuals of a specific flesh tone, "Bussing" and "Head Start" programs and the fact that we keep mentally challenged kids in regular classes, as to not offend the parents or hurt the childs feelings, instead of putting them in SPECIAL ED CLASSES! The problem with this is that the other children get shortchanged because the teachers spend so much time focusing on the "minorities" and the illegal immigrant population's children that don't belong sitting next to our kids in class.

Oh and blame the fact that jobs are held for graduates who were given a free ride through school based on thier ethnic background, and not given to the performers and those who know thier ass from a hole in the ground that actually deserves the position.

Japan and many other countries were well ahead of us on education issues long before Bush ever got elected.

If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University



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crack head Wrote:
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The UPI reporter is an idiot. The U.S. has lagged other industrialized nations in math and science for decades and our graduation rate has also been a problem for many years. As much as I dislike Bush and think No Child Left Behind was mostly ineffective, I don't think he made education worse and I certainly don't buy this idea that the U.S. was #1 in 2000 when Bush was elected.

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I think our troll was trying to stir some shit.

If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University

Stars Wrote:
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> The stats are out now.

So link to them. Oh, wait... I'll do it:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/60/47/39311361.pdf

If you read this Summary, you'll find that it's not really about a drop in educational quality here, it's all about improvements in other countries:

"There has been marked progress in the numbers completing secondary education across the OECD area.

In 22 out of the 29 OECD countries, and in partner economies Estonia, Israel, the Russian Federation and Slovenia, 60% or more of adults have now completed at least upper secondary education, while 26% have completed tertiary education."

Statistics are funny things, aren't they.

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